Device for waving hair



y 19 9. c. BUDINA ET AL 1,113,947

DEVICE FOR WAVING HAIR Filed April 8. 1927 Patented May 21, 1929.

ATE? FFEE.

CHARLES BUDINA, OF BLACKBOCK, AND PATRICK JAMES TRODZDY'N, F DUBLI N,IRISH FREE STATE.

DEVICE FOR WAVING HAIR.

Application filed April 8,

This invention relates to improvements in devices for waving hair, theobject being to provide a more simplified and efficient device which maybe successfully used, without practical skilled experience, by theordinary individual for waving their hair, thereby effecting a.considerable saving of expense in this operation by the elimination of askilled assistant.

In the accompanying explanatory drawing, by way of example, Fig. 1 showsa side elevation of the device oi? which a plan view is shown in Fig. 2,and Fig. 3 shows a cross sectional end elevation on the line HIIII ofFig. l drawn to an enlarged scale; and the same reference numbers areused for the same parts throughout. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sideelevation. Fig. 5 is a cross section on line V V.

A pair 01 prongs 1 are spaced apart to form a fork and are provided withoperating means such as a handle 2, there being provided a correspondingmember 3 having a longitudinal ridge 4, and being hingedly connected at5 to the prongs 1, and having corresponding operating means such as ahandle 6. There is formed in the member 3, at each side of the ridge 4,a longitudinal groove 7 (Fig. 3) into each of which fits one of thecorresponding prongs 1.

The device is provided, or not, with an inferior conductor of heat suchas asbestos 10, shown in Figs. 4 and 5, secured to the bottom of themember 3 by screw 11 or it may be compressed into a dovetailed grooveformed longitudinally in the bottom of the member 3 so that when thedevice is heated for hair waving purposes the strip of as bestos 10 willprevent scorching of the scalp should the device come too close or touchthe scalp. Where it is desired to stii'len the free ends of the prongscomprising the forks, the outer ends of the prongs are reinforced with aconnecting bridge piece 12, shown in Figs. 4 and 5, whereby greaterrigidity will be imparted to the prongs 1. The free ends of the prongs 1and the corresponding member 3 are curved or inclined at 11 and 12 witheach other to a point as shown and as viewed from a side elevation andfrom a plan view whereby the device may more readily enter the hair. Itwill be seen in Fig. 3 that the grooves 7 are made shallow with theirouter edges rounded off and that the ridge 4 projects somewhat above the1927, Serial No. 182,938, and in Great Britain March 11, 1927.

prongs 1. With reference to Figs. 1 and 2,

the member 3 is slotted out at 13 for passage of and working of thehandle 2 and the prongs l on the pivot 5, this construction insuringneatness with strength and rigidity.

Details of construction and arrangement may be varied to suitrequirements without departing from the nature or scope of our presentinvention.

In operating the device, the hair is well combed and divided at theposition desired, the device being heated as in the case of ordinaryhair waving tongs. A suitable portion of the hair is then taken up withthe help of a comb, and, with the prongs 1 open, is placed more or lessdiagonally across the ridge 4 over the grooves 7. The prongs 1 are thenclosed on the hair by pressing the handles 2 and 6 inwards and areallowed to remain so for a few seconds applying gentle pressure on thehair to be waved all the time. In closing the prongs 1, care must betaken that the hair does not lie at right angles to the ridge 4 butcrosses it obliquely in the way the wave is required. When the device isremoved, it will be found that a ridge has been formed in the hairtogether with a half wave on each side of the ridge. This process isrepeated along the same piece of hair, or strand of hair, at distancesdepending on the size of the wave required, the comb being used to leadand hold the hair in the required direction in zig-Zag fashion to impartthe desired wave form to the hair. This must be done as the prongs areclosing on the hair and before it is firmly held, and the inclination ofthe strands of hair across the ridge 4 is changed in directionalternately for each ridge and each half wave on each side of the ridge4 and so resembling the ridge and half wave on each side as imparted tothe hair by an expert waver with the ordinary hair waving tongs. wavercould not do this operation on his own hair with the ordinary hairwaving tongs which require various skiltul movements by the skilledoperator who must see that the hair is being waved, whereas the deviceaccording to our invention does not need any, of the other skilledmovements except closing in on the hair which is being directed by thecomb in the manner specified, so that our device can be effectively andconveniently and economically used by the But even an expert hairordinary unskilled individual, man or woman, for waving their own hair;

, Having described our invention, 'we claim I I 1. A device for'wavinghair comprising a flat member rounded or tapered to a point at one endto facilitate its insertion into the hair having an integrally formedridge tapering to a narrow blunt edge rounded at'the pointed end of saidmember, two narrowly spaced prongs, means hingedly connecting saidprongs to said member at the unpointed end thereof, said prongs beingadapted to be moved to fit one at each side of said ridge and to bemoved aboutsaid hinged means away from the ridge and means for operatingsaid member and prongs.

2. A, device for waving hair comprising a flat member rounded or taperedto a point at one end to facilitate its insertion into the hair havingan integrally formed ridge tapering to a narrow blunt edge roundedat thepointed end of said member, two narrowly spaced prongs, means hingedlyconnecting, said prongs to said member at the unpointed endthereof,1said prongs being adapted to be moved to fit one at each sideof said ridge, having their free ends chamfered to correspond withtherounded edge of the, ridge and to bemoved about said hinged means awayfrom the ridge and means for operating said member .and prongs.

3. A device for waving hair comprising-a flat member rounded; or taperedto a point at one end tofacilitate its insertion into the hair having anintegrally formed longitudinal ridge tapering to a narrow blunt edgerounded at the pointed end of said member, two narrowly spaced prongs,means hingedly connectingsaid prongs to said member at the unpointed endthereof, said prongs being adapted to be moved to fit one at each sideof said ridge and to be turned about and having the other end fashionedas a handle and the other member having its one end formed with twonarrowly spaced prongsadapted to fit against the flat part with oneprong on each side of the ridge and to be movedabout thehinging'meansaway from the other member and having'the other end fashioned as ahandle.

A device for waving hair comprising two members, hinging meansconnecting said members together like scissors, one member having itsone end formed with a fiat outer part lying in a diametrical plane ofthehinge tapered to a point at itsjex tremity, and an inwardly projecting.narrow and high ridge perpendicular to the fiatpart rounded to a pointat its outer extremity, and having the other end fashioned as a handleand the other member having its 7 one end formed with two narrowlyspaced prongs adapted to fit against the fiat part with one prong oneachgside of the ridge and to be moved about the hinging mean's'awayfrom the other member and having the other end fashioned as a handle.Signed by us: this 25th day of, March, 1927. V

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